[Agricultural, Fisheries and Livestock Newspaper=Agricultural, Fisheries and Livestock Newspaper] As South Korea and Ecuador officially signed the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement (SECA), damage to domestic flower farmers has become inevitable. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that on the 2nd, in Seoul's Jung-gu district at the Lotte Hotel, Han Han-koo, Director General of the Trade Negotiation Headquarters, and Ecuador's Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment, and Fisheries, Luis Alberto Jaramillo, held a meeting of trade ministers and officially signed the South Korea-Ecuador SECA agreement. South Korea and Ecuador began negotiations in 2016, held a total of nine official negotiations, and concluded the entire negotiation in October 2023. With the official signing now completed, procedures such as parliamentary approval are